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First-year student Robert Thomas, right, joins other Tulane students in sending good vibes and holiday cheer to service men and women overseas via a banner produced by the McIlhenny Co., the makers of Tabasco brand sauce. The event, which took place Thursday (Nov. 8) at Bruff Commons on the uptown campus at lunchtime, also included a special menu that had Tabasco sauce as a featured ingredient.

Navy ROTC midshipmen, from left, Joseph Miller, Robert Middleton and Samuel Fuller step up to the banner to writer messages to their oversea comrades. Francesca Benten of the McIlhenny Co. is handing them miniature bottles of Tabasco sauce.